Dental Medicine and Infective Endocarditis: Current guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis and recommendations for daily clinical practice.

Schriber, Martina; Sendi, Parham; Greutmann, Matthias; Bornstein, Michael M (2021). Dental Medicine and Infective Endocarditis: Current guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis and recommendations for daily clinical practice. Swiss dental journal, 131(3), pp. 245-251. Schweizerische Zahnärzte-Gesellschaft SSO

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Surgical interventions in the dental practice as well as interventions in the ear, nose and throat area, the skin, the respiratory, gastrointestinal or urogenital tract can lead to transient bacteremia. As a result, an infectious endocarditis (IE) may occur. Overall, this is a rare occurrence, but it is associated with high morbidity and mortality. Individuals with a history of IE, implanted valve prostheses and certain congenital heart defects are at the highest risk for IE. In dental medicine, there is a controversial debate as to whether bacteremia can occur already by chewing or brushing the teeth. Antibiotic prophylaxis for prevention of endocarditis should only be given to those patients who are at the highest risk for IE. This article discusses novelties and Swiss recommendations for antibiotic prophylaxis for highrisk patients for IE in the dental practice. In this context, antibiotic prophylaxis has gained importance for dentists, which is also reflected by the fact that the recommendations on the new endocarditis card are limited solely to dental interventions.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Review Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases > Research
04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases

UniBE Contributor:

Sendi, Parham

Subjects:

500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

2296-6498

Publisher:

Schweizerische Zahnärzte-Gesellschaft SSO

Language:

English

Submitter:

Parham Sendi

Date Deposited:

19 Nov 2021 13:31

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:54

PubMed ID:

33666387

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Antibiotikaprophylaxe Bakteriämie Endokarditisprophylaxe Infektiöse Endokarditis zahnärztliche Eingriffe

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/160696

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